Mailman 3 November 2000 - Mailman-Users

Too many pending requests?
by Per Starback July 7, 2003

July 7, 2003

I can't get to the pending request page for a mailing list. (My web clients just say "waiting for response" and finally give up.) I think it is because there are too many pending requests after some problems. (config.db is almost 10MB.) How can I do this some other way?

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?get a strange msg???
by Xiao Bing Dec. 22, 2000

Dec. 22, 2000

A member post a email to the maillist.Then get a strange response ------------------------------------------> subject:Your message to Oz_maillist awaits moderator approval content: Your mail to 'Oz_maillist' with the subject =?gb2312?B?suLK1NTT1r4=?= Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. --------------------------------------------------------------> What is the reason?

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help!!
by nicola Dec. 5, 2000

Dec. 5, 2000

I've installed Mailman on my Linux PC. I've compiled the source with the following options: ./configure --with-cgi-gid=mailman --with-mail-gid=mailman When i try to create a newlist (mailman/bin/newlist) as mailman user, the directory /mailman/admin is not created. Then I don't see the list in my web pages.Why??? Thanks Nicola

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RE: [Mailman-Users] authentication failed problems with mailman 2 .0rc1
by Torjus Jensen Dec. 1, 2000

Dec. 1, 2000

BTW - this is the exact problem we're having as well, and the mmsitepass password does not work either. In our case, the problem occurs for all lists. -----Original Message----- From: Kent Howard [mailto:kent@tensa.com] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:38 AM To: Erin Karper Cc: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] authentication failed problems with mailman 2.0rc1 Does the mmsitepass password not work either? On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:52:50PM -0500, Erin Karper wrote: +---------- | When I attempt to access the administrative interface for several lists | (http://linnell.english.purdue.edu/mailman/admin/pwadmins, as well as | pw-mentor, owl-bwtutors, pita-l, and labstaff), I get "authentication | failed" errors, even though I am entering the correct password. I have not | made any changes to the list or to mailman that could have caused this | problem, and the password was working before; I just suddenly get | "authentication failed" errors when trying to get to the | administrative interface for some of the lists. However, I can get into | the administrative interface for other lists, so it is not a problem that | is affecting the entire program. +---------- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Help needed - sendmail/mailman problem
by Dan Mick Dec. 1, 2000

Dec. 1, 2000

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:30:20PM -0800, Dan Mick wrote: > > > > > So what could be wrong here? > > > > As always, cron could be wrong. You say nothing about it, so > > I assume you didn't read this second paragraph of INSTALL: > > > > IMPORTANT: Pay special attention to the step below where you have to > > set up your crontab entries. If you do not do this, Mailman will not > > work. > > Thanks for your quick response, but I really don't see any relation between > a sendmail error and a cron-job. I missed the sendmail error because of line-wrapping, and just saw the "mail to xxx never gets delivered", and easily 99% of those errors are "oh, no, I didn't enter the cron job". Sorry to generalize; your cron looks right to me. So let's look at your actual problem without the noise around it: > Nov 30 22:57:04 jupiter sendmail[11058]: eAULv4S11058: <test-admin(a)remco.homeip.net>... User unknown > Nov 30 22:57:04 jupiter sendmail[11058]: eAULv4S11058: from=<test-admin(a)remco.homeip.net>, size=1002, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=IDENT:28@localhost [127.0.0.1] > > Very strange because I can send a normal mail to <test-admin(a)remco.homeip.net> > which is delivered. Which machine is jupiter? Which machine is remco.homeip.net? Are they the same? Which machine runs the mailman software? Which machine has the alias on it? When you "send a normal mail to test-admin...", are you doing it from the same machine that Mailman is running on?

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running Mailman on funky virtual server
by Doug Alcorn Nov. 30, 2000

Nov. 30, 2000

I have a machine that is running some proprietary code to create virtual machines. When I install a new domain, it creates a directory hierarchy such as /home/virtual/domainname with sub-directories like var, lib, usr, and home. The main server's httpd.conf file just has normal VirtualHost to allow the www.domainname.com to work. Nothing tricky there. However, a customized sendmail is running. The first thing it does is chroot to the virtual root of that domain. That allows each domain to have seperate and unique alias files. Also, majordomo is setup to work in this environment. I really want to use mailman instead of majordomo; but, here's my problem: since apache exects to find the cgi-bin in one place, but sendmail finds it in another, I don't know how to link up my MTA with apache. Any suggestions, or am I sol? -- (__) Doug Alcorn (mailto:doug@lathi.net http://www.lathi.net) oo / Unix Hacker |_/ "It's too late for paradise" (at least in this life)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Help needed - sendmail/mailman problem
by Dan Mick Nov. 30, 2000

Nov. 30, 2000

> So what could be wrong here? As always, cron could be wrong. You say nothing about it, so I assume you didn't read this second paragraph of INSTALL: IMPORTANT: Pay special attention to the step below where you have to set up your crontab entries. If you do not do this, Mailman will not work.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Error Mailman 2.0
by Dan Mick Nov. 30, 2000

Nov. 30, 2000

So you obviously have permission problems. Investigate. > Hello./ > > When i send an message to test list i recived tihs error > > The original message was received at Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:11:49 +0400 (GMT) > from veillon [150.185.156.1] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > "|/usr/local/mailman-2.0/mail/wrapper-mailman post test-mm" > (reason: 1) > (expanded from: <test-mm(a)forest.ula.ve>) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0//scripts/post", line 94, in ? > main() > File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0//scripts/post", line 73, in main > mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) > File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__ > self.Load() > > File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0/Mailman/MailList.py", line 868, in __load > fp = open(dbfile) > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: > '/usr/local/mailman-2.0/lists/test-mm/config.db' > 554 5.3.0 "|/usr/local/mailman-2.0/mail/wrapper-mailman post test-mm"... > unknown mailer error 1 > > > And de crontab genera: > > Your "cron" job on veillon > /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman-2.0//cron/qrunner > > produced the following output: > > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0//cron/qrunner", line 271, in ? > lock.lock(timeout=0.5) > File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock > self.__write() > File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write > fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: > '/usr/local/mailman-2.0/locks/qrunner.lock.veillon.13287' > > > Thank you.. > > ___________________________________________________________ > /\ J. Hernan Ramirez R. \ > \_| Forestal - RedULA - Admire Tel: +58 74 401560 | > | ________________________________________________________|_ > \_/_________________________________________________________/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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SUEXEC & Mailman co-existing?
by Scott Brown Nov. 30, 2000

Nov. 30, 2000

Ok - I've asked before - and only received one "didnt work for me" message. So I'm PLEADING with you now... Has anyone been able to get mailman and suexec to co-exist? If so... HOW? Thanks.

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Help needed - sendmail/mailman problem
by Remco van den Berg Nov. 30, 2000

Nov. 30, 2000

Hello all, I'm new to Mailman and trying to switch over from Majordomo to Mailman. But I'm having some problems I cannot find in a FAQ or so. So any help is welcome. Let's explain what I did, and my problem... I installed Python-2.0.tar.gz I compiled and installed Mailman-2.0 as described in the INSTALL file. I created the list 'test' as descibed and added the aliases. Run `newaliases` and read README.SENDMAIL but cause I don't use 'smrsh' nothing important to do for sendmail. So far so fine... but then I tried to subscribe to my own list. Using a separate account (vcepsv) on my PC (same PC as the sendmail/mailman software is running on) I subscribed on the 'test' list by using the web-page "http://remco.homeip.net/mailman/listinfo/test". The subscribed account receives a mail (as expected), and I replied on that. And then the mail to 'test-admin' is not correctly delivered. Here I have some lines from my mail-log file: The mail caused by the web-subscribtion: ---------------------------------------- Nov 30 22:53:46 jupiter sendmail[11020]: eAULrjS11020: from=<test-admin(a)remco.homeip.net>, size=1538, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200011302153.eAULrjS11020(a)jupiter.strijp.Ehv.nl>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=IDENT:65534@localhost [127.0.0.1] Nov 30 22:53:47 jupiter sendmail[11021]: eAULrjS11020: to=<vcepsv(a)remco.homeip.net>, delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=138782, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Then the reply on the mail to confirm: -------------------------------------- Nov 30 22:55:47 jupiter sendmail[11043]: eAULtlH11043: from=vcepsv, size=1546, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<20001130225547.A11024(a)jupiter.strijp.Ehv.nl>, relay=vcepsv@localhost Nov 30 22:55:50 jupiter sendmail[11045]: eAULtlH11043: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test", ctladdr=test-request(a)remco.homeip.net (2/0), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=prog, pri=31546, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Followed by the mail back to the user vcepsv: --------------------------------------------- Nov 30 22:56:05 jupiter sendmail[11050]: eAULu5S11050: from=<test-admin(a)remco.homeip.net>, size=784, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200011302156.eAULu5S11050(a)jupiter.strijp.Ehv.nl>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=IDENT:28@localhost [127.0.0.1] Nov 30 22:56:06 jupiter sendmail[11051]: eAULu5S11050: to=<vcepsv>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=138114, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent in which is standing: "Your request has been forwarded to the list administrator for approval" but this mail is never arriving at the list administrators email address: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nov 30 22:57:04 jupiter sendmail[11058]: eAULv4S11058: <test-admin(a)remco.homeip.net>... User unknown Nov 30 22:57:04 jupiter sendmail[11058]: eAULv4S11058: from=<test-admin(a)remco.homeip.net>, size=1002, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=IDENT:28@localhost [127.0.0.1] Very strange because I can send a normal mail to <test-admin(a)remco.homeip.net> which is delivered. So what could be wrong here? -Remco -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remco van den Berg Admin/SO/helpdesk DSE ICQ: 47514668 rvdberg(a)dse.nl http://www.dse.nl/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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